The Best New Golf Courses to Play in 2023
Buzzworthy new golf courses are the exception these days, not the rule. In the 1990s and early 2000s, heavy investment and mass-scale earthmoving supplied golfers with a smorgasbord of fresh playing options—and it oversaturated the very industry golf developers sought to catapult. But golf is having a renaissance: Spurred by the pandemic and ever-increasing accessibility to the sport, golf across the world is as popular today as it’s ever been. While the days of rampant course construction will likely never return, a spree of new developments have sprung up in recent years, and that means there are new golf courses to add to your hit list.
From a clone course in Wisconsin to a track nestled along Saint Lucia’s jaw-dropping shoreline, these are some of the best new golf courses to put on your radar in 2023. The usual suspects (that is, the game’s most-respected designers) are behind the bulk of this work: Coore, Crenshaw, Doak, and Hanse. Even C.B. Macdonald, a long-deceased architectural pioneer, makes a scorecard cameo on the year’s most innovative layout.
Here are seven new courses we’re stoked to play in the year ahead.
The Best New Golf Courses to Play in 2023
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